9: Evans, Execution & Forensic Linguistics Pardon My Enthusiasm

Go Down Ye Murdered, how a serial killer got a bloke executed, stirred a frenzy in the UK on capital punishment that birthed Forensic Linguistics.
The story of Timothy Evans, an introduction to John Christine, and papa Forensic Linguistics, Jan Svartvik.

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Christensen, T. K. & Mortensen, S. S. (2018). Introduction to special issue on Forensic Linguistics: European Perspectives. Retrieved from https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/D1937E0201CB5C49BACFE15AE282B61E/S0332586518000112a.pdf/introduction_to_special_issue_on_forensic_linguistics_european_perspectives.pdf

Svartvik, J. (1969). The Evans Statements: a Case for Forensic Linguistics. Retrieved from https://www.thetext.co.uk/Evans%20Statements%20Part%201.pdf

10 Rillington Place. Retrieved from https://www.10-rillington-place.co.uk/the_principal_characters.html


John Christie of Rillington Place: Biography of a Serial Killer p. 73
"Timothy Evans Reinterment (1965)". House of Commons. Historic Hansard. 25 November 1965. Retrieved 30 April 2020.